LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - Jackson County officials are proposing two sales tax plans to pay for the construction and operation of a new county jail.

A special election is set for Feb. 12 on proposals that call for two three-eighths percent sales tax increases that would raise an estimated $1.4 million a year. One of the taxes would end after construction costs of a new jail are paid while the second would be a permanent increase to pay for jail operations.

County Judge Jeff Phillips told the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (http://bit.ly/UcNyep ) that the county will have to shut down its 35-year-old jail if the tax plans fail.

The plans call for replacing the current 26-bed county jail in Newport with a 100-bed jail at a cost of about $8.8 million.